rate sleeping pills

"sleep assure" grade: A

it smells like ass, though.

does it leave an aftertaste the next day? i can't stand that

Simply sleep is supposedly Benadryl minus some of the unnecessary-for-sleep bits.

Benadryl, though, does a B- job for me. The next day I'm groggy, but I do sleep well.

whatever it is, it is hurting my brain

Remerol is good at putting me out for about 1.5 days.

Ambien has fans but I have not tried.

I <3 ambien but it WILL fuck u up

I find that a bit of high-quality molly puts me in a right decent state for sleep.

Also good for sleep is not drinking 5 pots of coffee during the day.

"Not-coffee" doesn't come in a pill yet, tho.

"sleep assure"

Herbal Blend (equal proportions of Passionflower Flower, Valerian Root, Chamomile)
25 mg

GABA (gamma aminobutyric acid) 10 mg
Pyridoxal-5-phosphate (P5P) 5 mg

Melatonin
(N-acetyl-5-methoxytryptamine)** 3 mg

But does it have any homeopathic ingredients?

doesn't need any

taking a sleeping pill at 5am when you have to be at work by 9: in retrospect very stupid ( imade it in on time but i'm so groggy all i can do is eat brownies that someone brought in and drink tea and thinking about putting my head somewhere soft)

I use melatonin to help reset my jetlag, I find it pretty effective at forcing sleep upon me.

dud

Lunesta - grade: A-

Bit of an aftertaste, but virtually no pill hangover. The only downside is that as it's not a narcotic; it doesn't put me down like an elephant, so sometimes my anxiety breaks the surface in spite of it and I wake up after five hours. I can't blame the drug for that, though.

Ciyesta

lunesta made my mouth taste like metal until about 4 pm the next day. it was disgusting. but not everyone gets that.

I do, yeah. The metal taste does linger a bit. But if you're been going without decent sleep, I find it's easy to value being rested over being able to enjoy lunch.

lunesta didn't do all that much for me sleep-wise either, and left me pretty groggy.

ambien, for all its weirdness, seems to be the best.

Can someone post a drudge siren if someone recommends a homeopathic thing on here?

I didn't actually really know what homeopathy was until I read the wikipedia article about it a few weeks ago! I thought it was "folk medicine".

homeompathy is pretty batshit really.

I'd rather have a fucking needle shoved in a fucking chakra. Er, maybe not

Stuff they give you in rehab edition!

Trazadone: B- Not terribly effective but no next-day grog.

Seroquel: A- will knock you right the fuck out but don't take too much.

Whatever happened to just straight up Diazepam? It got you all light and happy and the sleeping was golden.

i know that some people on this thread take daily antidepressants. isn't it a bad idea to pile sleeping pills on top of this?

maybe that is up for their doctor to decide?

12 beers

if only they made 12 beers in one easy pill

yo bell_labs, i have no idea about this stuff! from your answer i take it that doctors DO sometimes prescribe a combination of sleeping pills and antidepressants?

well if you have no idea about this stuff maybe you should refrain from making dickish comments.

tracer_hand, i take it from your answers that people DO sometimes act in ways that are both callous and ill-informed?

Boots' Sleep Ease tablets B-

Effective, but give me weird dreams and grogginess in the morning.

how is that dickish?

The dickish is pretty good, thanks.

Bringing up someone else's degree of medication is a pretty cuntish move to make, IMO.

^ expert on cunty moves

http://www.wtfcostumes.com/costumes/vagina_costume.jpg
^ this guy too

lol jon's butthurt cuz i defriended him on facebook.

no I'm butt hurt that you posted nasty personal shit about me on ilx.

But that's what friends are for dude!

you are a lunatic.

a killfiled lunatic!

I miss all the fun.

i may not be banned but when i tried to post last week jon just deleted it. I expect this post won't last long either.

-- ian, Saturday, March 1, 2008 12:59 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Link
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People's ratings and anecdotal experience of prescribed medicines are at www.askapatient.com.

Comments on the habit-forming ones are LOL ("VICODIN IS GREAT A++++. Cons: addictive, hard to get").

My sleep aid ratings:

Restoril (temazepam): A
Ambien 10mg: A-
Any allergy medicine: B
Herbal tea/banana/candle/yoga: A+

Homeopathy is for quacks.

some weed and a couple glasses of wine = really restful zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

weed usually keeps me up, but I’m not complaining, i like it that way

Bringing up someone else's degree of medication is a pretty cuntish move to make, IMO.

i assumed that he was mentioning use of a.d.'s because people on this thread have posted freely elsewhere on the board about them, and he genuinely had a question. it doesn't seem to me that he was trying to catch people out or make some kind of nasty zing. but, each to each.

C-SPAN + chamomile tea

guys, just go get some tylenol PMs

but for the love of god DONT MISS THE WINDOW

also serious question: can you just go ask a doctor for a particular brand? its still weird to me to see meds commericals on tv. its all a big mystery downunder and you take what you are given.

med commercials on tv = make me so goddamn mad.

Sunny, my boss claims this is how doctors make their bread and butter.

by choosing what you will take? (ie dc kickbacks?)

that and people don't like to pay money to be told "no" -- we were talking about xanax

was this thread supposed to be about sleep aids or jon and ian's broekd hartz

this thread was supposed to be about sleep aids and not any of the other stuff. i started it at 5 am the other week when i couldn't sleep. maybe it shouldnt have existed at all.

5 am is too late to take anything without being a zombie when you get up (unless you're getting up at noon).

i <3 generic rite aid nyquil, but you gotta take it early. melatonin seems to be working decently for me.

i don't think tracer was being dickish at all.

does anyone here take sleeping pills before flying? is this a recommended course of action if i'd like to get some shuteye on the plane? i find it nearly impossible to sleep on flights otherwise

When I first saw this thread I thought it said RAT sleeping pills.

last week I found alka-seltzer cold medication and black tea with lots of sugar (yes, black tea, lots of sugar) did wonders for my body clock

I haven't gone in for prescription or OTC sleep aids in forever. nyquil does jack shit and ambien just made me feel drunk without any of the fun bits

nyquil is classic if you actually have a cold, but pretty much dud any other time.

but yeah plop plop fizz fizz and then washing it down with some hot sweet tea would for whatever reason help my brain and body concur that it should be bedtime, they hardly ever agree normally

i used to take ambien for long flights, but i wouldn't recommend it if you're going to be flying less than 5 or 6 hours. also, you should tell the flight attendants not to disturb you as being suddenly jolted from an artificial snooze is really disorienting and angry-making.

i dont know what the intent was, but i think making presumptions about another person's medication is kind of obnoxious, unless you're my doctor and know my medical history. when i take ambien, i take like a quarter of a pill. it's not like im mixing irresponsible dangerous drug cocktails. my doctor wouldn't, and won't prescribe things that were dangerous in combination.

(many xposts)

Why do drugstore ads imply that "my pharmacist" should know about my drug interactions? I mean, FFS, that's 2 year college right?

Two years of pharma college is 2 years more than I have?

I mean there are people who don't know you can't take BCP and antibiotics together. Presumably their pharmacists would have warned them, if they knew -- or at least that's their job.

surgeons with over a dozen years of continuous education and OJT still manage to fuck people up with the wrong drugs, "your pharmacist" should, however, be able to refer to the documented warnings for each prescription and answer your questions based on the materials provided them by the vendor according to federal law

I don't understand what two years of lol college has to do with it

But does my pharmacist know about my /medical/ history? They just know about your /pharmacological/ history. I guess I like the idea that they're supposed to be doing this but the amount of interaction I've with them is pretty much a "take with food" label....

I like having them as a stopgap measure but I pretty much pick CVS/DR/Walgreens on the basis of which is on my way home and doesn't smell like festering old people.

I just think it's sad that we as a society have gotten to the point where so many walking talking eating breathing otherwise healthy young folks have to worry about pharmacological interactions at all.

http://wileywiggins.blogspot.com/thxlego.jpg

walking talking eating breathing but not sleeping

American Apparel = LOGAN'S RUN

I do two melatonin and a stiff gin/whiskey once the seatbelts signs go off on night flights across the atlantic (westbound), normally wake up in time for breakfast. I like melatonin as it tends to give four hours solid sleep followed by some alertness. sometime do one in the other direction, day flight to disrupt sleep patterns and get a solid siesta. I have pretty strongly imprinted sleep patterns and react quite well to the melatonin.

Would taking melatonin before bed help me get into a normal sleep schedule?

Manual labor. C+

Exercise. B

Sex. A+

^^^i disagree

Melatonin gives me a headache the next day (kinda like ecstasy, actually), but I was taking it to try and have vivid dreams or something stupid.

ambien is awesome but max otm; it takes an hour+ to kick in & during that time i typically hallucinated starring on bizarro game shows. thats not really a negative though.

i have no idea what these other things are, the only other sleep aids ive taken are 'moondrops' (ie hippie pseudo-smarties given to me by my mom) & benadryl, which makes me feel dehydrated & dried out as fuck in general if i take it at the necessary dose for it to make me drowsy.

melatonin gives me a bad headache too. lunesta I like but only for a day or two, after that it seems to reach a sort of hanging level and then I feel groggy a lot. ambien is ok but stops working. ativan is good for maybe four hours and is my current sleep aid of choice because maybe four hours is better than zero hours.

Trazadone has worked for me exactly twice out of the 30+ times I've taken it. Both times I woke up at 5 AM the next morning and couldn't get back to sleep. Felt refreshed though!

how do you ppl get these prescription medications? i've never had a doctor very eager to give me anything for insomnia

I figured out the key there is to avoid nonchalantly taking a swig from your flask while discussing your problems

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how do you ppl get these prescription medications? i've never had a doctor very eager to give me anything for insomnia

because of abuse potential, doctors tend to wanna rule out poor sleep hygiene first. going to bed at the same time every night? cutting out caffeine? avoiding stuff that overstimulates the brane before bed? gotta give all that a try for a month or so. therefore, if you're seeing a doctor, be a good reporter: describe in detail the rigorous sleep hygiene protocol you've been following, and how it hasn't worked. report that you've talked to friends and some of them reported success with (lunesta, ambien, etc).

Ambien works for me. Exercise, as someone posted above, does the opposite for me if it's too close to bedtime. It gets my adrenaline up, and I can't sleep. I try to work out in the morning before work. Of course, that's only if I slept well the night before and can get my lazy-ass out of bed.

I think some doctors are hesitant to start patients on sleep aids because they are notoriously tolerance-inducing, and can lead to harder stuff.

If you have chronic, genuine symptoms (and you've exhausted the possibilities of schedule/diet/caffeine/exercise etc.), your doc should at least start you on something weak.

All sleep aids stop working eventually, or so I've read. I try not to waste my bullets.

x-p Darn1elle OTM

I just have problems getting to sleep in the first place and then getting out of bed when sleepytime is over. I consider myself lucky that the interim period is almost never ever interrupted

I have trouble getting out of bed when sleepytime is over because I don't like my job and I can't imagine anything happening on any given day that's worth getting out of bed for. But c'est la vie.

laurel, if its any consolation, i think most everyone hates life just as much as you do, they just arent quite as vocal about it.

Except drinking with ILXors, obv.

no no that's just "leaving the house" which is different and sometimes worse. "getting out of bed" for me is usually accomplished because the inside of my mouth tastes bad and my hair is greasy so I have to rectify with hygiene. but bed is so comfy.

Tom aren't you doing some hardman workout thing now? I'm hoping I can enjoy doing this.

God I want weed now

?!?!? I am not doing some hardman workout thing.

I am cutting way way back on alcohol, if that counts

xpost You should. I mean obv I'm going to fall off the wagon on this but I feel pretty fucking awesome right now. If only I had lasik so I could see shit.

bell_labs i don't know where i got that impression, i guess it sounds like different strokes for different folks.

sometimes when i think about this medication combination stuff it reminds me of an old sesame street skit where ernie and bert are trying to go to bed. ernie turns out the light, and we hear a dripping faucet. it drives ernie crazy so he gets up, but he can't get it to stop dripping. so he turns on a fan to drown out the sound of the faucet. but the fan drives bert nuts so bert gets up and turns on the radio. but ernie can't deal with the radio so he gets up and opens the window, which lets the street noise in, cars honking, etc.

sorry, maybe that wasn't the best metaphor to relate on a thread about sleeping pills!

melatonin works wonders for me, unfortunately having a kid means I shouldn't force deep sleep on myself so I haven't used it in two years. but when I used to it was like taking fucking drugs or something, I can't believe it's even legal w/out a perscription

i wonder whats up with bert and ernie. i mean, really, what is up with them?

Promethazine/Codeine cough syrup is no joke. It definitely helped with the coughing, because it puts you into a coma. I almost fell asleep at the dinner tab-

. . . . .zzzzzzzzzzz

i had some of that recently and it did zip to make me sleepy. ZIP. I didnt even get a nice warm codiene lalalala feeling.

that's why you have to drink half the bottle!

err not that i've ever done that

god, why didnt someone tell me that?

oh, it did stop the coughing but , pish, whatevs.

Codeine makes me really grumpy. is that a legitimate side affect?

i've developed an intolerance to codeine/vicodin. it just makes me throw up now. i hope i don't need any majorly painful spine surgery anytime soon.

codeine just depresses your CNS, i would think that would make you more tolerant of annoyances?

maybe i'm not taking enough

Serequel (D) is horrible as mentioned in so many words above. Not because of its sleep effects - you will be comatose. It's just too hard to deal with afterwards.

I've also taken Trazadone (B+) and Abilify (no pros or cons to make it grade-worthy). Note that all of these pills are used to treat mental illnesses so are not strictly "sleeping pills". And in my case they were all prescribed by a doctor who knew perfectly well what he was doing.

In my experience no stimulating activity for a few hours before bed does the trick. This includes: no television, no working, no internet, no bars or alcohol. Sex, however, is very helpful

i get the feeling that sex is a lot more effective as a falling asleep method for men than women.

it's not really fair.

^^^seriously

finding a job where you don't have to get up until the afternoon is very handy

reading a novel after midnight: A

well any book i guess, nonfiction probably works even better

try watching a Tarkovsky flick

actually, i have ivan's childhood from netflix that i keep putting off watching

reading william gaddi's "a frolic of his own" has been working well for me.

i get the feeling that sex is a lot more effective as a falling asleep method for men than women.

-- bell_labs, Thursday, March 6, 2008 1:46 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

i read somewhere that having an orgasm is more effective at putting people to sleep than most sleeping pills, it just tends to work quicker with men (5 minutes) than with women (30 minutes)

oh yeah slow movies, i liked dead man but it put me to sleep on like 5 separate occasions before i finished it

if i remember correctly, before i came along, pp used to read hockey statistics to go sleeps.

i always fall asleep if i watch movies after like 11 or 12, even if i could stay up for hours doing other shit

Yoga=A

Tonight, I dine on melatonin

what next

i have to tell you, those Advil PM, they're good

i want the one that makes you comatose

none of the OTC stuff works - it is horrible for me. it makes me feel awake, but dizzy, even while lying down.

we just need to start drinking a bottle of whiskey every night.

maybe morphine

OPIUM.

it took me til my mid-20's to find the perfect cocktail for nigh-immediate zzz's when my head hits the pillow: no caffeine after like 3 pm (i got crazy low-tolerance), fairly vigorous workouts on my lunch break, read something bone-dry. If those fail, weed/light boozing/ rub one out.

My bigger problem is staying asleep. I wake myself up snoring (I think) sometimes around 3 or 4 am and have trouble going back under.

ya i usually just do things that make me fall asleep. like drink vodka. no just kidding that's only rarely.

bonghits and a coupla beers before a heavy meal = lights out for me.
i'm sure this infuriates ms. labs to no end.

excersize

Haven't needed melatonin since I started biking and smoking weed again

weed

excersize, weed = not pills

the next person that tells me to smoke weed, have sex, or go jogging gets a punch in the jaw

smoke sex jogging

we just need to start drinking a bottle of whiskey every night.

Drinking heavily usually makes me pass out and wake up 4 hours later unable to get any more sleep. Drinking moderately just keeps me up for an additional 2-3 hours.

drinking can definitely mess with sleep after the initial fall-asleep

hate that

Ecstasy: very poor.

VERY

melatonin had me feeling wayyyy out of it for the entire following day. not fun.

see i didn't think it was that strong! i thought it was some kind of natural get-your-cycle-back-on-track thing

Whoever recommended you take ecstasy for sleep is not your friend.

It was a joke.

Ecstasy: very poor.

See, you people aren't getting the pure shit, which doesn't interfere with sleeping at ALL.

see i didn't think it was that strong! i thought it was some kind of natural get-your-cycle-back-on-track thing

-- Surmounter, Wednesday, April 30, 2008 2:05 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

yeah, it is a natural hormone your body produces. i think my cycle was never really that far off so it sort of fucked with my natural balance. maybe it's better to use if your sleep schedule is completely backwards, like if you worked a night shift or something

See, you people aren't getting the pure shit, which doesn't interfere with sleeping at ALL.

If you manage to get MDMA powder, yeah you're generally right. In my experience actual pills are always cut with various speedy shit.

pure is nbice

x-post

call me duhhh but isn't that the whole point of the difference b/w ecstasy and MDMA? for a similar effect, but a less freaky one, i prefer MDMA and redbull.

*preferRED. a long long time ago.

i don't like melatonin. I think i prefer sleep deprivation.

stfu upt0eleven you know-nothing, jack-off

I think i openly acknowledged my lack of expertise on the subject. speaking from fairly limited experience not an encyclopedic knowledge. why so readily willing jump to dickhead mode?

why so readily willing jump to dickhead mode?

-- Upt0eleven, Wednesday, April 30, 2008 2:31 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

l o l

You must be new

ive been trying ambien cr the past couple nights & have gotten next to nothing out of it, not even waking dreams of appearing on game shows.

im under the impression that all the otc stuff short of melatonin is just benadryl under different names, if im wrong pls correct me

not new, just tired.

aww

yah i took ambien on a plane once and did not sleep

my aunt on the other hand managed to drive her car while sleeping on ambien - so effects may vary

i have posted on ilx while sleeping on ambien

it's a weird kind of sleep

haha links plz!

i'm sure it has happened more times than i know about! i only know by waking up with my laptop on my pillow next to me like some horrible nightmare.

i took ambien on the flight from vegas to NY and did not fall asleep, my legs just got a weird sort of heavy/paralytic feeling.

you fell asleep.

i fell asleep on the way TO vegas, but on the way back i just watched 5 episodes of law and order.

i'm sure it has happened more times than i know about! i only know by waking up with my laptop on my pillow next to me like some horrible nightmare.

-- bell_labs, Wednesday, April 30, 2008 3:00 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

L O L

take ambien first thing in the morning

the next person that tells me to smoke weed, have sex, or go jogging gets a punch in the jaw

-- bell_labs, Wednesday, April 30, 2008 12:48 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

yeah i was about to say when i had insomnia and people told me to exercise i wanted to kick their ass so bad.

why

exercising while in the middle of an insomniac episode is like the worst thing you can do but on the whole it sounds reasonable to me

I think the point is to stop being a lazy fuck

uh...what?

Eating healthier & working out help to regulate your sleep cycle.

Bong hits, beer + heavy metal

yup

yah i'm not lazy or unhealthy, and that is not why i have trouble sleeping. i have been an insomniac since i was a little kid i just want recomendations on what to use instead of ambien because i have tried all the normal things and they dont work for me and never fucking will THX.

Do you work out?

that has nothing to do with this
stop talking to me.

I have some insomniac issues, I started doing yoga and it puts me right out. You may enjoy that,bell, it's very relaxing.

BELL WANTS PILLS

I wonder how many times she has to repeat the thing about no recommendations for exercise before you all learn to read english

Actually I don't wonder that I'm just being sarcastic again because lol internet

If you are srsly having problems I would tell a doctor you have been prescribed Seroquel for sleep in the past and it worked wonderfully and you need some more of that shit. It's not a narcotic and dr's seem to give it out freely.

"BELL WANTS PILLS"

Ok, then the Dilaudid + Tylenol 3 combo should work ever time. Just make sure you wake up at some point.

i'm a doctor on the internet

okay so now I've heard of seroquel being prescribed for bipolar disorder, insomnia, and even fucking tinnitus.

personally, linds, i wouldn't really go for the seroquel unless you have exhausted all other options. my brother is on a moderate dose and it seriously can fuck with your liver. i'm kinda disturbed to hear it's being used to treat insomnia, really.

maybe a moot question since you've been dealing with this for a long time but have you ever done a sleep study in a lab?

no...i want to though! how do you find out about those things? though, i don't think i could fall asleep in a lab.

i would try seroquel. it's honestly been months since i've gotten more than 3-4 hours of uninterrupted sleep, and i would like something to knock me the fuck out.

my bro had a sleep study done to measure the effects of his apnea, i think he just got a referral from his primary care doctor but it requires some follow-through for sure, you have to schedule pretty far in advance

http://newyork.craigslist.org/search/jjj?query=insomnia

even if you didn't fall asleep in the lab they would be able to measure your levels of respiration, heart rate, brainwave activity etc over a substantial period of time -- it might give them some clue of what's happening in your body / brain that prevents your from dozing off

Boots' Sleep Ease tablets B-

Effective, but give me weird dreams and grogginess in the morning.

-- Bodrick III, Monday, 3 March 2008 18:15 (1 month ago)

Had to stop taking this because I was getting migranes the next day.

I'm suprised that no one has mentioned Dalmaine, A+ stuff.
RE: Seroquel--you don't need to take an anti-psychotic to sleep, first try some benzos (Ativan,Valium) and if that doesn't do it ask for Dalmaine. No side effects, not habit forming at least not in my case.

xanax helped me sleep in high school when i was going thru some rough anxiety stuff, its probably worth a shot

yes please give me some xanax

xanax is great for sleeping.

zopiclone is ok

i've lately, though only in the past few days, started to hyperventilate when going to sleep :(

linds w/out getting too personal have u seen a shrink about this, ideally one who can prescribe you a benzo or something? when i was getting the worst of my anxiety i was getting like no sleep, and once i was seeing someone and taking the xanax as needed i started sleeping much much better.

waht do you do when you can't sleep (besides get frustrated)? watch movies, read books?

usually read or just lay there :/

i am sometimes able to fall asleep while reading, but not while watching tv...too distracting.

i have seen shrinks before, but not lately.

its worth considering... im always hesitant to recommend therapists, esp for things as relatively minor as insomnia, but in my experience that was what worked the ebst

therapists are even bigger scam artists than chiropractors.

some therapists are shit, some are life savers. you have to shop around.

oh yeah I forgot about klonopin, on the benzo tip
shit is a knockout and a half

btw, you can usually negotiate therapists rates down

yeah most of them use sliding scale pay rates anyway

Eating healthier & working out help to regulate your sleep cycle.

so's going to bed but that's not what she asked. unless it's in pill format.

anyhoooooow, i don't think i have ever taken a sleeping pill in my life. i can sleep ANYWHERE.

therapy was key in college.

thirding (fourthing?) "shrink get u rx"

I've also been insomniac since I was 5. Mom used to grind up Tylenol PM & put it in my dinner beverage.

Did you veto melatonin upthread? It did me good.

For a while anyway, then I got Ambien rxd. Now I just borrow what I can get from who's got it.

ambien has stopped working. though i didn't have it for awhile and just got it refilled, and i slept slightly better last night.

i just really am not into talk therapy, just the meds please. i don't really buy that catharsis/picking at scars does anything magical.

riiight, just sayin doc gets u scribbly which gets u little blue/white/yellow things that help (ideally)

linds, if you want, look up CBT which is less about the psychoanalytic "picking at scars" (which i will totally rep for but i understand is not for everyone) and more about real-life pragmatic strategies for dealing with anxiety (strategies that mean i havent had to be on meds since high school), plus as HOOS says if you find a psychiatrist they will prescribe things

ok max i will ask my doc about a CBT referral - that sounds like it could help.

yeah i dont know if its totally a cure-all or if it works for everyone but it def worked for me, not that i never get anxious anymore, but im way better at taking control of it and not getting into the "bad places"--even if the doc doesnt work out i recommend this book: http://www.amazon.com/Feeling-Good-Handbook-David-Burns/dp/0452281326

you will feel like a tool buying it and reading it but it helped me a lot a lot.

and hopefully doing any of that will help w/ insomnia!

biking 12 miles, eating dumont mac & cheese and smoking weed = ZZzZ

I shd really look into CBT for my anxiety.

cock and ball torture??

cognitive behaviour therapy. Self-talk, in a nutshell.

biking 12 miles, eating dumont mac & cheese and smoking weed = ZZzZ

-- Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Sunday, 4 May 2008 03:53 (15 hours ago) Link

i am awake

-- Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Sunday, 4 May 2008 05:38 (14 hours ago) Link

^^do not trust this man!!

there is no grade high enough for ambien

also serious question: can you just go ask a doctor for a particular brand? its still weird to me to see meds commericals on tv. its all a big mystery downunder and you take what you are given.

-- sunny successor, Monday, March 3, 2008 7:39 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Link

For sure you can do this. I did this a couple months ago after I had finished the 20 or so sample packs of Lunesta a friend mailed me. I liked it, so like the commercial told me to do, I went to my doctor for more and said "hey I would like to ask you about if Lunesta is right for me" and she asked me some questions and I believe I gave the right answers because I got a prescription.

The friend who mailed them to me said she couldn't hang with them because they were giving her intense nightmares, and I was all looking forward to maybe experiencing an intense nightmare for shits and giggles the first time I tried one. I didn't get a nightmare though, just perfect sleep. They work great for me and I really like them, but I've never taken any other sleep aids ever so I can't compare them to Ambien or anything.

^^do not trust this man!!

-- deeznuts, Sunday, May 4, 2008 3:43 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

I was waiting for booty call

lunesta leaves a disgusting aftertaste the next day.

i took an extra half an ambien last night because my neighbor was blasting her stereo and it made me do weird things apparently :(

I want to be put down like an elephant, I am a student and my body clock is basically fucked. I wanted something that's gonna make me want to sleep and not roll over and listen to my iPod until 6am, and then sleep in until 4!

IAN IN A LAB COAT

i tried melatonin last night. it took awhile to fall asleep but i slept through the night until my cat woke me up at 7. then i slept more, and couldn't get up to my alarm, and feel groggy as hell and very tired. so i'd say C- for work night, but will try it again on the weekend when i can sleep in.

Lindsay, take a half pill -- those pills are way overdoses

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A flurry of such cases prompted the U.S. Food and Drug Administration last year to require that Ambien, Lunesta and other "sedative-hypnotic" drugs carry strong warnings. But that scarcely dampened enthusiasm. U.S. sleep-aid prescriptions grew 10% last year, according to IMS Health, thanks in part to generic Ambien.</i>

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IAN IN A LAB COAT

sung to the tune of mirror in the bathroom

I took a whole melatonin last night and was woken up too early by hammering which soon became soothing and I overslept

i slept a lot this weekend

friday night i was feeling so so tired and anxious. i took half a melatonin and slept from midniteish - 11:30. then i went back to sleep until 5 pm. i felt so sluggish and awful.

saturday night i slept about 8 hours uninterupped.
last night 8 hours again, no waking up (but with ambien).
i really wanted to keep sleeping this morning. but i feel like a human being again. maybe the melatonin did reset my system?

it is so, so nice to not feel like a zombie.

i also had so many crazy long and drawn out dreams full of intrigue and plot twists. which is part of why i couldn't get out of bed this morning. i just kept hitting snooze and going directly back into the dream.

bell labs i cant tell if you are saying the melatonin is a good thing or a bad thing or if you are ambivalent

uhm i think a good thing, but i wouldn't use it more than once every couple of weeks if i really neeeed it because sleeping until 5 pm feels pretty awful.

there is definitely a hangover and i wouldn't do it on a work day.

i guess i really dont get melatonin cuz i was under the impression it had to build up over period of days/weeks in ones system before it was really effective, what you are describing sounds like more a of a knockout punch which seems kind of not worth it

One woman woke up with a paintbrush in her hand, having painted her front door in her sleep.
i need to start taking ambien. i have a whole house to paint.

melatonin doesn't have that effect on me at all -- usually makes me slightly sleepy and no hangover

alright so i dont know what the ride will be like but im gettin on the bus asap

but bell you haven't been sleeping hardly at all for quite awhile right? that might be why the melatonin had that particular effect on you.

Getting the dosage right on melatonin is U+K. For me 1mg = yawn, 2mg = sleep, 3+ mg=SLEEP/crazy dreams/hangover

god i'm trying to remember what my crazy dreams were about...it started with some kind of nymph woman giving me a PROPHECY and later ended up as some elaborate obstacle course in a desert land.

but yeah it seems like melatonin = different for everyone?

after a week of shit/little sleep i finally got a total of about 9 hrs last night (with only one wake up) AND i dreamed i found who the pinefox really is. it was like a great revelation of truth.

i just had a hot cup of black tea! at 1am! WHAT AM I DOING WRONG

dude nooo!
i have cut out all caffeine besides one cup of green tea in the morning.

I'm in college and it's finals week, which means an adderall when I get up and a sominex when I'm ready for bed. lol white collar college drugs

so buzzed ON TEA oh well.

my doctor has signed me up for a sleep study! what should i expect from this? how am i going to fall asleep in a laboratory when i can't even fall asleep in my own bed?

as long as yr getting paid, dont worry about it

i'm not getting paid

Kalms: D

tell me more about this sleep study

i don't know anything about it! i am going for a consultation to determine if i need an "overnight visit"

is this some kind of personalized non-experimental sleep study? because otherwise YOU ARE A TOOL DEMAND MONEY

i don't know. i think it is personalized. my doctor referred me, it is covered by my insurance but i pay a co-pay.

My doctor gave me some Lunesta samples and I took the first one last night. Pretty impressed, good sleep, no grogginess. Just that nasty metallic taste. It faded though, after I ate breakfast and drank a lot of water.

I'm generally trying to trim my pill regime but I don't sleep well. Anxiety keeps me tossing and turning long after I turn in. And I wake up in the night often just to toss and turn some more. I only woke up once last night and was able to go right back to sleep.

Hopefully this will help me be less irritable and depressed.

I tried everything. I have insomnia so bad that ambien doesn't work for me. I use Seroquel. It works like a charm. Only problem is it costs $300 a month, you have to see a psychiatrist and basically claim to be schizo or worse to get it.

Trazodone 9

I just got a prescription for Seroquel. I'm pretty nervous about it, since the last time I was on an antipsychotic it kind of ruined my life (Risperdal for severe social anxiety; made me fat, twitchy and neutered).